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Subject(s)

• Nawawī 1233-1277—Rawḍat al-ṭālibīn [Browse]
• نووي—روضة الطالبين [Browse]
• Islamic law—History—14th century—Sources [Browse]
• Shafiites [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Second part in a set of three (see colophon, fol. 240a) of a commentary on Rawḍat al-ṭālibīn by Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī (d. 676/1278), on fiqh.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a (later hand).
• Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in casual medium small naskh in black ink, with use of red for entries. Dark cream paper with laid and chain lines visible, the latter in groups of three generally. Marginal annotations (often attributed to Shaykh Walī al-Dīn). First fol. badly damaged ; stained with water ; loss of text.
• Chiefly quinions. Catchword on the verso of each leaf ; some quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see fol. 26a).
• Inscription in Arabic script on a repair on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Irbīl 66".
• Origin: According to colophon, copied by Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nawawī for himself, Damascus, 4 Rajab 783 [Sept. 24, 1381] (fol. 240a).
• Incipit: بسم ... رب يسر بعونك مولاي الفصل الرابع فى ازاله النجاسة قوله

Binding note

Only the upper cover and the doublure of the lower cover are extant. Apparently contemporary binding, in brown leather over paper pasteboard, with tooling. Embossed leather doublure. Badly damaged.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 1408

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

Muhimmāt

OCLC

233824188

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